Eino Keskitalo

Good vocal (esp. for a guide), I can feel the emotion dude! Doesn't go too syrupy I think. --Eino

This unts gets my approval. Liking, nah loving the chord synths too. I'll try to give this a closer listen later. --Eino

Loved this on the WIP boards already. The brooding, chilling vibe is fantastic. I really, really like the rhythmical feel with the drums going and the piano kind of creeping over them. I like the rapping, it sound good, but I've got to critique how suddendly it comes on. It sounds a bit tacked on. There could have been a lot more vocals. --Eino

Quirky synth-poprock instrumentation, I like it. I can hear you're a beginner, but that's alright. The a-part has a good drive, especially the second time around. There's variations, and there's structure. I like how you build each part each time they come around again. I *love* that fake electric guitar. It's fake, but it sounds great. It sounds like not all the notes are exactly on the beats. How did you enter the notes? I don't know anything about FL, but humour me anyway. You might want to quantize, although the wavering does add life into it. It should be on purpose of course. Or maybe I'm just hearing things. The intro is a bit long. When the beat and bass come in at 00:40, there should be a crash cymbal or something to emphasize it. Now it just ..starts. In the b-part, the upper notes on bass sound like a separate instrument, it's does not sound like realistic playing imo. I like your basslines otherwise. Drumming is overtly busy, simplifying a bit would make it more a solid groove. High-speeding is ok. --Eino

I get 404.

Like the famous saying goes: no source link, no source comment. Never take anything for granted. Yup, the start is definitely very nice. I like how the drums come in with that filter. I like the drum sound! Extremely nice beat and fills in the drum intro. Great eerie feeling with the melody and drums. That first melody + drums gets a bit too complicated to follow rhythmically around 01:22. A stuttering, bad fill at 01:22-01:25. You're doing some time signature tricks I presume, but you're not pulling it off. I like the idea, see if you can simplify it a little. Start the melody which starts at 01:24 on a regular first beat of the drum beat, start a new bar with the drums and melody both on the same "one" right there. That's my suggestion, anyway. I think the drums sound a bit fuller in v2, or am I imagining? --Eino

I love that monstrous, noisy bass sound. That said, it could switch to non-distorted, softer/fuller/bassier sound every now and then, to give room to the guitars. That would then make it even more monstrous when it kicks back in, and (perhaps counter-intuitively) increase the energy level of the track overall. The arrangement on the other instruments might have to respond accordingly. I like the bookend chip parts in Insert Coin. The lead work in the beginning of Battle Scars isn't cutting it for me. Not enough energy, groove-wise it's not in the pocket, it sounds cautious.. you know? Overall, Insert Coin feels a lot tighter and energetic. I think it gets better towards the end in BS but early impressions are important. I have to say I love that bit at 00:43! This is also a huge compliment: this isn't a genre I generally like, but I like Insert Coin anyway. So you are definitely doing something right. --Eino

Grrroooooovyyyyyyyyy. Evil, dark kind of groovy. Beat + bass (kickass line!) + fx are complimented by wonderfully spacey synths. I'm soooo sold. My definite favourite from the album. --Eino

Nice source. Interesting sounds, quite unique, a bit muffled. Horrible fadeout. --Eino

Actually, I really like the long intro, just listening to it. Great, relentless driving beat. I don't like the main synth sound. So I'd say this one didn't deliver for me. Outro sounds nice again. --Eino

Great but short. Or maybe.. short but great. Yeah, that's better. Listen closely; it sounds fantastic and there are some wonderful details in there - I absolutely love the percussion. (There is also a bit of offness in the final Lunarians part with lotsa delay effects, but that's forgivable). The soaring b-part of the Another Moon theme is *gorgeous* here. The fade is kinda unfortunate and unnecessary, the ending could have been done without it. I could just loop this without it, but now it's jarring. A proper diminuendo would have been great. I hate being so negative about what ultimately is a minor detail, but on such a delicate track it's really unfortunate. Otherwise, it's a really tasty piece of music! --Eino

The chip sounds in the intro don't mesh with the drums. Once it gets past that, it starts sounding cohesive + very good, and that's what you'd except from a mutagen mix. I'm impressed by the use of stereo. The floating synth is lagging a bit. Doesn't bother me, it works. Very laidback feel in this one. It stops suddenly and feels underdeveloped. Nevertheless, this is a quirky, relaxed, good-sounding mix, so it's worth checking out! --Eino edit: well, actually it doesn't stop that suddenly, but it does feel somewhat underdeveloped. There is a bunch of great details, but overall it could have gone more places.

Congrats to you guys! --Eino

Great track with plenty of energy! Props for having two basslines going at the same time, hehe. On my first few listens I felt the string lead sounded either too fake or not fake enough, but even then when the harmony came in, it sounded extremely good. Now I don't seem to mind the single lead part either. Overall I like how the structure builds quite quickly up to the leads, gets intense with the guitar, and then cools off a bit, before having another go with the guitar. The transition to heavy damage works quite well in my opinion, even while I do believe if you feel you could have done a better job. It's pretty good as it is! I don't like the long power chords (I generally don't), they feel a little stiff, that would have been a great opportunity to throw in some subtle filters or tremolo effects, glitchy stuttering, or something to spice them up. Not that they bother me *that* much. The HD part fits together very well, while having a different feel. It feels like it's over too soon, but I guess I'll just press play again! --Eino

Hehe, we paid a visit to gf's friend's, who has a couple of weeks old baby girl, damn it felt like there was this euphoric cloud in their apartment, the parents seemed ridiculously happy (and tired). I wish you all the best, and huge coangroatuloatioans! (how's *that* for bad pun!) --Eino

Very beautiful beginning. Evolves well. A bit less of the static effect on the lead would have been nice, but it doesn't ruin it. Great dub/triphop feel, I love this stuff. Keeping. --Eino

This one sounds like it's crunched to the middle. It sounds practically mono, and frequency-wise it also seems sort of muffled.. But happily, it has a lot of groove and a good solo towards the end. The soloing was nice to hear after listening to a couple of more conservative takes on this theme. --Eino

I criticized "Spaced" for lack of energy, here's the same material done in a very energetic and uplifting way. Unnts unnts yeah, and I don't particularly like unnts unnts, but I can't help enjoying this one. --Eino

Pretty much what everyone has said. Before the strings come in to fill the soundfield, it sounds worryingly bare. Then it sounds rather pleasant for a while, but doesn't really offer enough to be a keeper. Needless fade in the end. --Eino

Very nice transition from the intro to the main part. I actually mistyped "pain part" first, I guess I don't like the actual theme that much! It's voiced too softly in my opinion. I don't feel the forward motion that OA speaks of. IMHO the piece could have skipped repeating the A part so much before moving to the next part, that would have kept the energy going better. Regardless, not a bad ditty at all. --Eino

Very pleasant, and well-produced for it's age. Recommended if you need some quirky chilling music. --Eino

Good choice of source tunes, but on the whole it didn't feel like a cohesive piece, nor was the production that great. I liked that chiptune bit, though, the crystal keyboards / drumming combo sounded pretty good after that. The writing after Fight 2 on the lone electric piano was good (original I assume? correct me). The marching percussion with the crystal keyboards sounds pretty good, although the sound idea could be produced better. So, there was quite a bit of good things in this piece, but it didn't really work as a whole to me. --Eino

When I first heard this a couple of years ago, I had a lot of trouble hearing Shining Force in it. I didn't enjoy the piece back then, and this style doesn't appeal to me that much, but right now I appreciate it better. There are some good intensity and feel changes. I also like the synth elements thrown in with the orchestra. Overall it stays a bit samey despite different parts and variations, I feel that the part that begins at 2:00 is too close to the beginning. Nevertheless, a good listen. --Eino

That fade after the first tune is so strange to hear.. Otherwise, I actually really enjoyed listening to this. Obviously it's not much of a rearrangement, and not a radical re-sounding of the material, so that too is strange to hear among OCR tunes, even the older ones. This one sticks out. Luckily I liked listening to it. --Eino

Fantastically moody, groovy track. The sound is a bit muffled, but I don't mind. Good stuff! --Eino